Appeal No. 1999-0172
Application 08/334,733
Charles D. Huston et al. originally took this appeal from
the final rejection of claims 1 through 3 and 5 through 31,
all of the claims pending in the application. The examiner
has since withdrawn all rejections of, and allowed, claims 12
through 26. Accordingly, the appeal is dismissed with respect
to claims 12 through 26, leaving for review the standing
rejections of claims 1 through 3, 5 through 11 and 27 through
31. We affirm-in-part.
THE INVENTION
The invention relates to “a system and method for
tracking inventory and freight using the global positioning
satellite system” (specification, page 1). Claims 1 and 10
are representative and read as follows:2
1. A system for determining locations of freight
containers in a freight yard comprising:
2 Our review of the record indicates that dependent claim
28 is redundant with respect to parent claim 27. This
informality is deserving of correction in the event of further
prosecution before the examiner.
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